Waiting in the Wings for the Curtain to Rise
In 2003, when she was just 15 years old, Ohoude Khadr decided to become a professional opera singer. With the assistance of the Sawiris Foundation, she has achieved her dream.
While Ohoude was exposed to fine music in her home, it wasn’t until 2000, when her school — the German School in Alexandria — hosted the regional competition for the Jugend musiziert competition, that her imagination was set on fire. The Jugend musiziert competition promotes amateur musicians and young people with professional musical ambitions. Ohoude’s family hosted a Turkish pianist for the competition and accompanied her to rehearsals and other events, allowing the budding opera singer to suddenly glimpse new horizons.
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Ten years have elapsed since the launching of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001, at the beginning of a new millennium and amid great hopes for Egypt's economic and social development. The Foundation was born particularly to create jobs for young Egyptians aspiring for good careers and better living standards. Our aim was to invest in human welfare and sustained development, and provide vital safety nets and much-needed services in some of our most deprived communities.
Since then, our job creation schemes have covered many areas of concern and created thousands of sustainable jobs while our education and training schemes have created new opportunities for thousands more. Hundreds of scholarships in leading universities around the world have been offered...
